مورخ ورزش های رزمی و رزمی کار
Posts about the history of St. لوئیس, میسوری, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. لوئیس, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. اغلب به صورت ادوارد نوشته می‌شود، اما مانند کنار هم گذاشتن کمک و بخش تلفظ می‌شود, Eduard was as unique as his name. من با نوشتن در مورد او به دلیل داستان هایی که در مورد او شنیدم مشکل داشتم
When it comes to machine politics and organized crime, Kansas City has always outshone St. لوئیس. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City was also home to several high-profile gangland shootings. خیابان. لوئیس’ last organized crime leader was arrested for playing cards. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, آوریل 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was employed as a mechanic at
Weeks ago, I was looking for a copy of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott from my grandfather’s old library. پدر بزرگ گیلبرت P. الیس یک کتابخانه است که او به من در اوایل 1990s داد حال. این کتاب ها و میز خود گنجینه هایی که با من تا روزی که زنده ام خواهد ماند هستند. به عنوان یک بچه, I used to sit in his
Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. لوئیس”, خیابان. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. تاریخ لویی پلیس, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French
On the morning of Saturday, آوریل 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. خیابان. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. زمان
Last Monday, I was able to scratch a big item off my bucket list. I attended a Liverpool Football Club game in person. Liverpool FC came to my hometown of St. لوئیس, Missouri on August 1, 2016 to play a preseason game with AS Roma. My daughter Caity attended the match with me, which made the day extra special. من
ساختمان ها فقط انبوهی از تخته ها و آجرها هستند بدون داستان هایی که به آنها چسبیده است. During November 1912, خیابان. آرتور هادلستون افسر پلیس لوئیس توسط آلبرت وایتفیلد، قاتل مشروط به قتل رسید. وایتفیلد همسر معمولی خود را غافلگیر کرده بود, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for
روز سه شنبه, نوامبر 5, 1901, خیابان. Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for
My second great-grandfather George Washington Story was born in August 1843 to Gilford Dudley Story and his second wife Nancy Jane Story nee Womack. George was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, USA. He was the fourth of Dudley’s and Nancy’s nine children. George Washington Story married his first wife and my second great-grandmother Malinda Davis on November 26, 1863,